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3rd  EDITION 


Its  Law  and  Its  Literature 


By  THOS.  E.  WATSON 

Author  of  "The  Story  of  France,"  "Napoleon"  "Life  and  Times  of 

Andrew  Jackson,"  "Life  and  Times  of  Thos.  Jefferson," 

"Waterloo,"  "Bethany"  (a  novel  of  the  Old  South), 

"The  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy,"  Etc. 


Published   by 

The  Tom  Watson  Book  Company,  Inc. 

Thomson,  Ga. 

1928. 


Copyright,  1927 

GEORGIA  WATSON   LEE   BROWN 

Thomson,  Ga. 


The  Roman  Catholic  Church 


Its  Law  and  Its  Literature 


IF  YOU  examine  the  creeds  of  the  churches,  ascertain  their  fundamen- 
tal laws,  and  read  their  literature,  they  have  no  right  to  complain.  On 
the  contrary,  they  cannot  ask  you  for  fairer  treatment.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  the  churches,  with  one  exception,'  proclaim  their  whole  creed, 
give  the  widest  publicity  to  their  laws,  and  invite  you  to  study,  not  only 
their  literature,  but  their  records. 

Presbyterianism  is  proud  to  tell  you  what  it  has  done  for  Scotland,  for 
Ulster,  for  Geneva,  and  for  Holland.  The  Church  of  Knox  and  Calvin 
made  its  mistakes,  and  sometimes  committed  crimes ;  but  they  were  the 
result  of  the  state  of  mind  which  Roman  Catholicism  had  imposed  upon 
Europe,  and  from  which  the  pioneers  of  the  Reformation  could  not  en- 
tirely free  themselves.  The  murder  of  Servetus,  for  his  denial  of  the 
Trinity,  has  been  a  source  of  boundless  satisfaction  to  the  Roman  Church, 
which  murdered  tens  of  thousands  of  Christians,  because  they  could  not 
believe  that  bread,  sold  out  of  a  bakery,  can  be  changed  into  the  body 
of  God. 

In  like  manner,  the  Baptists  are  proud  to  tell  you  how  Roger  Williams 
planted  religious  liberty  in  Rhode  Island,  before  the  granting  of  the 
famous  Lord  Baltimore  charter  for  his  Catholic  colony  in  Maryland — 
a  charter  which  left  the  Romanists  free  to  burn  such  men  as  Benjamin 
Franklin,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Thomas  Paine,  ex-President  Taft,  and 
every  other  deist  or  Unitarian.  Under  the  Maryland  charter,  Abraham 
Lincoln  and  Robert  Ingersoll — not  to  mention  less  prominent  agnostics — 
could  have  been  put  to  death.  It  was  Roger  Williams,  in  Rhode  Island, 
and  Thomas  Jefferson,  in  Virginia,  who  founded  real  freedom  of  re- 
ligious opinion.  Of  course,  William  the  Silent  had  long  before  done 
the  same  thing,  in  Holland,  after  he  had  come  triumphantly  out  of  the 
terrific  struggle  with  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  and  the  Spanish  King. 

As  for  the  Episcopalians,  the  Lutherans,  and  the  Methodists,  their 
civilizing  work  is  a  part  of  the  history  of  our  Republic.  None  of  them 
is  guilty  of  such  a  frightful  crime  as  the  massacre  of  the  Huguenot 
Colony,  in  Florida.  None  of  them  had  torture  chambers,  such  as  the 
Romanists  built,  all  the  way  from  Florida  to  California,  and  thence  to 
the  tip  end  of  the  South  American  Continent.  None  of  them  enslaved 
Indians,  and  caused  an  entire  race  to  fade  away,  under  the  horrible 
hardships  of  the  Spanish  Catholic  system.  None  of  them  have  stirred 
up  bloody  revoluutions  in  Mexico,  Central  America,  and  South  America, 
as  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  has  done,  and  is  still  doing.  None  of  the 
other  churches  wear  garments  that  drip  with  innocent  human  sacrifice. 
None  of  them  so  robbed  the  helpless  natives,  and  so  gorged  itself  on 
gold,  that  the  annual  revenues  of  the  church  were  $50,000,000.  in  Mexico 

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alone ;  while,  in  the  Philli]jpine  Islands,  Mr.  Taft  had  to  mortgage  the 
whole  group  to  satiate  a  part  of  the  papal  claim — leaving  the  priests  in 
undisturbed  possession  of  the  best  city  property  in  the  Islands. 

True,  some  of  the  Protestant  churches  are  accumulating  far  more 
property,  than  is  good  for  the  spiritual  welfare.  They  imitate  the  bad 
example  of  the  Romanists,  in  building  cathedrals  which  smack  too  much 
of  mere  human  pride.  The  expensive  church  requires  the  Rich  Man, 
and  the  Rich  Man  takes  the  life  out  of  the  church.  The  Baptist  preacher 
cannot  denounce  Rockefeller's  Colorado  infamies,  and  his  Standard  Oil 
criminalities,  when  Rockefeller  is  sitting  on  a  front  bench,  ready  to 
pour  Standard  Oil  and  Coal  Trust  money  into  the  church's  yawning 
treasury.  A  corporation  like  Trinity  Church,  in  New  York,  is  a  national 
scandal.  The  State  should  exert  her  sovereign  powers,  under  the  law 
of  Eminent  Domain,  and  take  over  all  such  vast  and  unnecessary  church 
properties ;  and,  after  duly  providing  funds  for  the  continuance  of  strictly 
religious  work,  should  apply  the  surplus  to  public  education,  mothers' 
pensions,  and  similar  charities. 

It  is  not  good  for  the  country  to  have  so  great  a  proportion  of  all 
the  wealth  grasped  by  the  churches,  untaxed,  and  yet  benefited  by  the  rise 
in  values,  made  possible  by  secular  industry.  Only  in  this  one  particular 
do  we  find  the  same  general  abuse  in  all  the  churches.  Too  much  thought 
and  effort  are  given  to  property;  and  as  the  churches  become  more  and 
more  the  bombproofs  of  rich  rascals,  who  deserve  to  be  in  stripes  and 
chains,  the  poor  man  stands  afar  ofif,with  bitterness  in  his  heart,  and 
bitterness  on  his  tongue.  He  says,  and  believes,  "There  is  on  law  and 
religion  for  the  rich  and  another  law  and  religion  for  the  poor.  I  cannot 
get  justice  in  the  fine  court  house,  and  I  cannot  get  soul-rest  and  comfort 
in  the  fine  church." 

In  these  United  States,  where  Roman  Catholicism  has  to  meet  com- 
petition, and  has  to  walk  as  uprightly  as  possible,  its  literature  ought 
to  be  of  the  highest  type.  Mere  self-interest  requires  it  to  avoid  as  far 
as  possible  anything  that  might  alarm  the  non-Catholic  world,  shock  its 
traditional  beliefs,  and  ofifend  its  common  sense. 

In  Spain,  Portugal,  Ireland,  and  the  southern  portion  of  the  Con- 
tinent, it  is  different.  In  Catholic  countries,  Roman  prelates  and 
editors  can  say  and  publish  almost  any  absurdity,  in  the  name  of  faith, 
and  drive  it  down  the  gullets  of  the  laity. 

But  in  this  country,  you  would  suppose  that  Romanist  leaders  would 
practise  the  same  secrecy  as  to  their  customs,  that  they  practise  in  reference 
to  the  Pope's  Canon  Law — the  fixed,  ancient,  and  unchanged  basic  law 
of  Roman  Catholicism. 

Concerning  this  Roman  code  of  laws,  some  of  which  are  in  operation 
in  the  United  States,  at  this  moment,  and  all  of  which  are  utterly  antago- 
nistic to  our  American  laws  and  Constitution,  I  will  speak  later. 

Of  the  literature  that  is  being  industriously  circulated  by  the  Romanist 
leaders  in  their  tireless  efforts  to  convert  us  to  their  "faith,"  quite  a 
number  of  speciments  have  come  into  my  hands,  recently.  They  were 
sent  to  me  from  West  Point,  Georgia,  in  which  vicinity  it  is  being  used. 


In  that  part  of  the  State,  and  in  Alahania,  just  across  the  Chattahoochee 
River,  there  is  a  large  population  of  mill-workers,  many  of  whom,  no 
doubt,  have  never  enjoyed  those  educational  advantages  which  the  Ameri- 
can churches  are  providing  at  such  prodigious  expense  for  the  children 
of  China  and  Japan — countries  whose  governments  amply  provide  free 
public  schools  for  their  own  people. 

If  I  were  to  go  to  one  of  the  Protestant  ministers  of  West  Point,  or 
Opelika,  or  Columbus,  and  ask  him,  wliai  he  has  ever  done,  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  Romanism  among  tlie  factory  settlements,  could  he  tell  me 
anything,  that  he  has  done? 

If  popery  is  not  a  curse  to  any  nation  that  it  rules,  why  do  Protestant 
churches  exist?     IVhat  did  they  originally  protest  against f 

If  the  same  terrible  Roman  system  that  Knox,  Luther  and  Calvin 
thundered  against,  has  craftily,  and  panther-like  crept  upon  our  indifferent, 
unsuspecting  people,  why  should  the  Protestant  churches  not  thunder 
against  it,  now?  Every  Protestant  minister  should  take  to  his  heart 
and  conscience  this  question: 

"What  have  I  done  to  prevent  my  flock,  or  the  lambs  thereof,  from 
wandering  into  the  snares  of  Romanism,  when  they  move  into  the  big 
cities  ?" 

What  has  the  average  Protestant  preacher  done  to  enlighten  his  con- 
gregation, as  to  the  true  nature  and  the  fatal  purpose  of  Italian  popery? 

When  Rome's  sly  emissaries  flood  the  factory  settlements  with  the 
literature  of  superstition,  idolatry,  and  Mary  worship,  how  can  the  average 
worker,  into  whose  hands  this  literature  falls,  detect  its  frauds,  its  fallacies, 
its  falsehoods,  and  its  total  lack  of  Scriptural  foundation? 

The  average  person  cannot  do  it,  unless  he  has  had  mental  help  from 
some  who  know  the  history  of  Rome's  hateful  hierarchy,  and  the  ruinous 
principles  of  its  creed. 

One  of  the  favorite  magazines  of  the  American  papists  is,  TJie  Lamp, 
published  at  Graymoor,  New  York.  It  prints,  on  its  inside  cover,  a 
testimonial,  signed  by  Cardinal  Merry  Del  Val,  who  assures  The  Lamp 
that  the  Pope  cordially  bestowes  a  special  blessing  on  it.  Cardinals  Gib- 
bons, Farley  and  Falconia  testify  the  highest  regard  for  TJic  Lamp,  and 
their  letters  to  that  effect  also  appear  on  the  cover. 

A  considerable  portion  of  The  Lamp  is  taken  up  by  letters  from 
people  who  believe  that  St.  Anthony  has  done  them  favors.  Because  of 
the  alleged  favors  of  this  Italian  priest,  who  died  some  centuries  ago,  the 
dupes  send  money  to  Th,e  Lamp.  Thus  a  phantom  saint  and  his  fancied 
favors,  pour  a  continuous  stream  of  oil  into  The  Lamp. 

One  of  the  letters  reads : 

"Dear  Father:  Enclosed  find  $1  in  thanksgiving  to  St.  Anthony  for 
cure  of  rheumatism.  I.  C.  V. 

"Glens  Falls,  N.  Y..  Sept.  9,  1914." 

Another  follows : 

"Dear  Father:  I  promised  to  send  $1  each  month,  if  I  was  cured  of 
my  rheumatism,  and  now  1  am  nearly  well." 


On  another  page  of  the  same  magazine  I  find  an  advertisement  of 
"a  remarkable  cure  of  rheumatism,  sold  bv  the  Arex  Company,  of  New 
York.'" 

Consider  the  absurd  inconsistency  of  this.  In  one  breath  they  say 
that  Saint  Anthony,  of  Heaven,  cures  rheumatism,  and  in  the  next,  that 
the  Arex  Company,  of  New  York,  does  it.  In  either  event,  The  Lamp 
makes  money. 

In  the  letters  from  people  who  believe  that  Saint  Anthony  has  miracu- 
lously healed  them,  there  are  some  from  those  who  had  suffered  with  their 
eyes.  But  on  another  page.  The  Lamp  advertises  Dr.  John  J.  Hogan, 
who  is  recommended  as  a  highly  skilled  specialist  in  the  treatment  of 
diseases  of  the  eyes. 

Thus  Saint  Anthony  competes  with  Dr.  Hogan,  and,  as  you  may  say, 
snatches  the  ducats  out  of  his  hands. 

One  person,  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  sent  The  Lamp  $5,  because 
Saint  Anthony  had  helped  in  a  real  estate  deal.  Another  person  sends 
"the  enclosed  check,  as  a  thank  oft'ering  for  the  return  of  a  stolen  type- 
writer, after  it  was  prayed  for." 

Other  letters  read : 

Dear  Sisters:  The  petition  I  asked  in  the  Novena  was  granted.  My 
affairs  have  been  settled  most  advantageously.  Please  accept  my  heartfelt 
thanks  for  your  good  prayers,  and  the  offering  I  promised,  $5. 

Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  Oct.  9,  1914. 

Dear  Sisters:  Last  month  I  asked  you  to  include  in  your  Novena  a  request 
of  mine  for  re-appointment  to  teach  in  the  evening  schools  of  our  city.  I  was 
more  than  surprised,  when  I  read  in  one  of  the  daily  papers,  that  I  had  been 
appointed.       Out  of  my  first  month's  salary  I  shall  send  you  an  offering. 

,   N.   J.,    Sept.   30,    1914.  A.   J. 

Dear  Father:  Find  enclosed  one  dollar  for  St.  Anthony's  Bread,  which 
I  promised  if  a  sum  of  money  was  paid  back,  after  the  debtor  said  he  was 
unable  to  pay.  MRS.  T.  M.  H. 

Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  21,  1914. 

My  Dear  Father  Paul:  I  have  just  heard  that  I  won  my  motion  for  a 
change  of  place  of  trial  of  my  case,  and  I  want  you  all  to  know  how  thankful 
I  am  for  all  your  prayers,  and  also  to  St.  Anthony.  You  will  hear  from  me 
very  shortly.  Oh,  how  my  heart  goes  out  to  you  all,  and  I  feel  so  thankful 
tonight  that  I  cannot  express  myself!  F. 

,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  15,  1914. 

Dear  Father:     In  the  Novena  I  asked  for  a  position   for  my  son.     He  has 
now  obtained  work,  after  being  without  anything  to  do  for  almost  ten  months. 
Yonkers,    N.   Y.,   Sept.   4,    1914.  MRS.   A.    R. 

Dear  Reverend  Father:  I  wish  to  thank  St.  Anthony  for  getting  two 
hundred  dollars  of  the  seven  hundred  and  fifty  which  my  sister  and  I  lost,  and 
I  wish  also  to  join  in  the  Novena  commencing  next  Tuesday  for  the  recovery 
of  tlie  remaining  five  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  M.  K. 

Bronx,  N.  Y.  City,  Oct.  25,  1914. 

Your  Reverence:  I  promised  when-, my  son  was  out  of  work  to  send 
an  offering  if  he  got  work  again,  and  now  I  send  it.  MRS.  M,  K. 

I    am   enclosing   my   promised   thank  offering   to   St.   Anthony,   if    I    should 

find  a  beautiful  gold  locket,  which  I  lost.  I  found  it,  and  never  expected  to  see 

it  again.  MRS.  G.  E.  M. 

Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  22,  1914. 


Aside  from  the  disposition  which  The  Lamp  makes  of  all  this  money 
(which  disposition  may  be  honest  and  charitable),  the  question  arises — 
What  is  the  mental  condition  of  the  editors  who  encourage  people  to 
beliee  that  there  is  a  Saint  in  Heaven  who  helps  collect  doubtful  debts, 
changes  the  venue  of  law  cases,  takes  a  hand  in  real  estate  deals,  hunts  for 
lost  typewriters,  and  finds  jobs  for  the  unemployed? 

What  is  the  mental  condition  of  the  Romanist  priests  who  teach  this 
sort  of  thing;  and  what  is  the  mental  condition  of  American  citizens  who 
pay  their  money  to  The  Lamp  for  the  alleged  services  of  St.  Anthony? 

You  can  understand  the  mental  attitude  of  those  who  believe  in  Faith 
cures  and  Christian  Science. 

But  the  Roman  Catholic  beliefs  concerning  St.  Anthony  and  the 
Virgin  Mary,  are  altogether  different. 

When  we  read  the  letters  of  those  who  believe  that  Mary  hunted 
for  lost  horses,  and  St.  Anthony  found  lost  money,  we  are  stupified. 

The  African  belief  in  the  conjure  bag,  is  a  progressive  state  of  mind, 
compared  to  this  Roman  Catholic  belief  in  saints,  that  secure  tenants  for 
vacant  houses,  and  tell  people  where  to  find  "a  beautiful  gold  locket,  which 
I  had  lost." 

Among  the  "favors"  which  St.  Anthony  is  asked  to  grant,  as  soon 
as  he  can,  The  Lamp  lists  the  following : 

Financial  and  Industrial. — Suitable  employment  for  104;  for  advancement 
in  present  employment  for  14;  success  in  business  for  17;  success  in  studies 
and  examinations  for  6;  victory  in  lawsuit  for  3;  temporary  help  for  38;  for  the 
payment  of  money  due  6;  for  means  to  pay  debts  for  22;  sale  of  property  for  25; 
good  rentals   for   8;   miscellaneous  petitions,    18. 

A  lady  writes  from  North  Dakota:  "Dear  Father:  Enclosed  find  a  little 
offering  for  the  orphans.  Some  time  ago  I  wrote  you  to  kindly  make  a  Novena 
for  us,  as  we  lost  eleven  horses.  On  the  third  day  of  the  Novena  we  found  six 
of  them,  and  later  found  them  all.  We  are  very  grateful  to  God  and  our 
Blessed  Lady,  and  wish  to  have  this  published  in  her  Annals." 

A  friend  from  Dublin,  Ont.,  announces  that  they  were  saved  a  great  deal 
through  having  weather  favorable  for  harvesting,  after  addressing  Our  Blessed 
Lady  of  Victory. 

"After  joining  in  the  last  Solemn  Novena  the  favor  I  desired  was  granted, 
stolen  money  being  returned,  and  I  am  indeed  grateful  to  our  Blessed  Lady  of 
Victory,"  writes  another. 

Our  Blessed  Lady  assists  the  poor  widow:  "Dear  Father:  Last  month, 
when  my  monthly  bills  came  in,  it  seemed  to  me  I  would  not  be  able  to  meet 
them  by  the  end  of  the  month.  I  prayed  to  Our  Lady  of  Victory  that  I  might 
be  able  to  do  so.  It  is  with  gratitude  that  I  write  to  thank  her,  for,  indeed, 
I  was  able  to  meet  my  bills  within  the  time  allowed.  I  have  been  joining 
in  the  Novenas  and  asking  Our  Blessed  Lady  to  assist  me  in  making  ends  meet 
and  making  a  living  for  my  six  children  in  a  sm^U  grocery.  As  business  is 
so  quiet,  I  know  I  could  not  succeed  without  Our  Lady's  assistance.  It  will 
soon  be  three  years  since  our  dear  Lord  called  my  husband.  Kindly  publish 
this,  that  others  in  need  may  be  encouraged  to  ask  help  of  her  who  can  obtain 
anything  she  desires." 

From  a  grateful  friend:  Enclosed  find  offering  of  $10.  From  the  10th 
to  the  18th,  my  Novena  was  made  that  my  law  suit  might  be  settled  out  of 
court,  and  on  the  13th  the  settlement  was  made.  I  am  very  thankful  to  Our 
Blessed  Lady,  through  whose  intercession  I  have  gained  many  favors." 


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"I  am  sending  $5,  being  the  amount  I  promised  Our  Lady  Victory,  should 
I  succeed  in  selling  my  store,"  writes  a  grateful  friend.  "Please  publish  this, 
that  others  in  difficulty  may  be  encouraged  to  seek  help  through  her  powerful 
intercession." 

What  do  you  think  of  a  system  which  enslaves  human  reason  in  such 
a  way  as  that?  In  what  part  of  the  Bible  can  anybody  find  justification 
for  it?  How  can  America  expect  progressive  thought  and  action  from 
citizens  who  allow  their  minds  to  be  so  degraded? 

In  this  missionary  literature  which  the  Romanists  are  scattering  so 
profusely,  the  name  of  God  the  Father  rarely  occurs.  The  name  of 
Christ  is  seldom  used,  except  in  the  glorification  of  Joseph  and  Mary. 

In  the  magazine  called  The  Annals  of  Our  Blessed  Lady  of  Victory 
(published  at  Lackawanna,  New  York),  you  will  find  such  paragraphs 
as  this — 

Mary  secures  the  salvation  of  all  who  have  recourse  to  her. 

What  text  in  the  Bible  tells  us  to  seek  salvation  through  Mary?  No 
such  idea  is  in  the  Scriptures,  old  or  new.  No  such  idea  was  in  the 
Catholic  creed,  until  more  than  a  thousand  years  after  Christ.  In  fact, 
the  dogma  of  the  immaculate  conception  of  this  Jewish  woman  was  not 
adopted  by  the  Roman  Church,  until  1870. 

Here  are  two  other  paragraphs  from  the  same  magazine: 

Our  Lady  of  Victory,  triumphant  in  the  Immaculate  Conception,  pray 
for  us. 

Oh,  sinner,  cast  yourself  at  the  feet  of  Mary;  you  will  not  be  the  first  whom 
she  has  snatched  from  the  gate  of  hell. 

There  isn't,  in  the  entire  Bible,  the  slightest  reference  to  any  woman 
mediator,  to  whom  Christian  prayers  may  be  offered. 

The  whole  idea  is  pagan :  it  comes  from  the  Eastern  Mythologies,  in 
which  goddesses  occupied  divine  positions.  Those  Oriental  religions  made 
their  way  into  the  Roman  republic,  and  were  most  popular,  in  the  days  of 
the  Caesars. 

W^hen  Constantine  resorted  to  the  sword  to  force  these  Romans  into 
the  Christian  Church,  they  remained  pagans  at  licart.  The  church  held 
them,  by  allowing  them  to  have  the  same  festivals,  ceremonials,  local  deities, 
&c.  In  course  of  time,  the  effeminate  Eastern  habit  of  worshipping 
women,  created  practically  a  fourth  person  in  the  God-head,  by  ascribing 
to  Mary  the  power  to  save  souls. 

The  Annals  magazine  continues— 

So  great  was  Mary's  charity  when  on  earth,  that  she  assisted  the  needy, 
even  before  she  was  asked,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Marriage  Feast  of  Cana,  when 
she  told  her  Divine  Son  the  distress  of  the  newly-married  couple,  "They  have 
no  wine,"  and  by  this  asked  Him  to  work  a  miracle,  which  He  did  to  please  her. 

Mary  so  loved  man  that  she  was  willing  to  give  her  only-begotten  Son 
for  his  redemption,  even  to  the  ignominous  death  of  the  cross. 

This  writer  was  in  sore  straits  to  find  evidences  of  Mary's  great 
charity.  To  ask  that  some  wine  be  made  for  the  use  of  the  marriage 
f casters,  hardly  comes  under  the  head  of  charity,  at  all;  and,  with  this 
single  exception,  there  isn't  a  word  in  the  Bible  about  Mary's  great 
charity. 


There  isn't  a  particle  of  Scripture  for  the  statement  that  Mary  was 
wilHng  for  her  son  to  be  crucified;  and  if  she  did  not  have  four  other 
sons  fhen  the  Gospels  made  assertions  which  are  untrue. 

Consider  this  further  editorial  statement — 

It  is  a  great  joy  to  the  Sacred  Heart  of  our  Lord  to  grant  the  requests  of 
His  loving  and  beloved  Mother;  hence  Mary  becomes  Virtuous,  for  she  can 
ask  no  favor  from  Him  who  is  omnipotent  without  obtaining  Iier  request. 

You  will  see  that  the  whole  conception  is  that  of  an  Immaculate 
Jewess,  who  always  remains  a  virgin,  and  who  now  saves  lost  souls  by 
asking  her  Son  for  them. 

This  revolutionizes  the  Bible.  It  dispenses  with  the  necessity  for  God 
the  Father  and  also  for  the  Holy  Ghost.  You  pray  to  Mary,  and  Mary 
prays  to  her  Son.  and  you  are  saved.  In  addition  to  this,  they  have 
made  a  saint  out  of  the  carpenter,  Joseph ;  and,  at  one  time,  the  interests 
of  popedom  were  placed  under  his  "protection." 

Of  course,  you  must  be  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  Bible  is  silent  on  the 
subject  of  Joseph's  even  being  a  convert  to  Christianity.  We  do  not  know 
whether  he  was  or  not.  What  is  more  significant,  and  antagonistic  to 
the  modern  worship  of  Mary,  is  the  fact  that,  //  Christ's  mother  became 
one  of  his  converts,  while  he  was  teaching,  the  Bible  fails  to  mention  it. 
The  New  Testament  writers  did  not  consider  Mary  important  enough 
to  tell  us  what  became  of  her.  She  is  treated  as  a  person  of  no  conse- 
quence to  the  Christian  creed.  Like  Joseph  and  Lazarus  and  Caiaphas, 
she  is  a  name,  and  stands  for  no  essential  dogma.  Her  place  in  the 
Christian  system  is  that  of  the  Jewess,  chosen  to  be  the  human  mother 
of  Jesus  Christ;  and  when  she  has  performed  that  maternal  duty,  she 
stands  aside. 

You  will  search  the  Scriptures  in  vain  to  find  where  Christ,  or  any  of 
the  Apostles,  ever  gave  her  the  slightest  power  in  the  church. 

We  don't  know  when,  nor  where,  she  died ;  and  nobody  ever  thought 
it  mattered  particularly,  until  paganism  developed  in  the  Roman  Catholic 
system.  Then  they  created  the  "tradition"  that  she  was  carried  bodily  to 
Heaven,  by  the  angels. 

The  great  bulk  of  Roman  Catholic  literature,  in  the  Dark  Ages,  con- 
sisted of  miraculous  things  which  liappened  to  the  saints,  to  miracles 
worked  by  the  saints,  to  "apparitions"  of  the  virgin,  to  words  uttered 
by  her  to  those  who  saw  the  "apparition,"  &c.  In  Hallam's  History  of  the 
Middle  Ages,  and  in  Buckle's  History  of  Civilij^ation,  you  will  find  speci- 
ments  of'  this  utterly  stupid  and  debasing  literature.  Hallam  and 
Buckle  never  dreamed  of  its  coming'  to  life,  again :  they  regarded  all  that 
sort  of  rubbish  as  dead  forever.  They  held  it  up  to  the  scorn  of  man- 
kind, as  "an  eidence  of  what  Roman  Catholicism  did  for  the  mental 
prostration  of  the  human  race.  They  felt  no  stronger  interest  in  it 
that  a  scientist  took  in  the  skeleton  of  a  mastodon:  in  each  case,  the 
monster  was  thought  to  be  extinct. 

They  were  grievously  mistaken.  The  mastodon  has  not  come  back 
to  life,  but  the  other  monster  has.  A  few  years  ago,  the  leaders  of  the 
American  Catholics  began  to  cautiously  introduce  the  cult  of   Saint  An- 


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thony,  of  Saint  Joseph,  and  of  "Our  Lady  of  Victory."  They  followed 
this  up  by  republishing  the  fables  of  the  Dark  Ages,  under  the  title  of 
Lives  of  the  Saints. 

Having  paved  the  way  for  bringing  miracles,  the  miracles  are  coming. 
Saint  Anne's  shin  bone  is  doing  marvelous  things  in  New  York.  Holy 
ropes  are  bringing  unspeakable  blessings  of  those  who  buy  the  sacred 
twine,  and  wear  it.  The  little  pewter  medals  which  the  priests  sell  in 
great  numbers,  will  run  the  doctors  out  of  business,  if  Catholic  faith 
in  the  unbelievable  continues  to  grow.  As  to  "apparitions,"  they  have 
migrated  from  Europe,  and  are  feeling  quite  at  ^lome  in  this  country. 
Soon  the  Virgin  will  designate  some  fountain  whose  waters  are  as 
miraculously  curative  as  those  of  Lourdes ;  and  then  we  will  have  a 
Lourdes  of  our  own. 

Two  of  the  "apparitions"  which  have  already  appeared  are  thus  de- 
scribed in  TJie  Lamp : 

It  was  Sunday  evening,  in  the  octave  of  All  Saints,  1900.  For  reasons 
which  we  may  not  now  go  into,  it  had  been  for  some  days  a  time  of  grave 
anxiety  for  the  little  company  of  Sisters  in  St.  Francis'  house  and  to  our 
Mother  especially  there  was  not  wanting  the  danger  of  even  possible  phj'sical 
violence.  Vespers  of  the  Festival  had  been  sung  and  Benediction  was  over. 
Our  Mother  was  kneeling  in  Chapel  by  a  window  overlooking  the  Sacristy 
door  opening  out  of  doors.  Suddenly  she  heard  a  sound  of  crying,  and  glancing 
out  of  the  window,  saw  a  little  acolyte,  ten-year-old  John,  still  in  his  red  cas- 
sock, and,  as  we  have  just  said,  weeping.  Hastening  out  to  him,  the  Mother 
put  her  arms  about  him  and  said:     "Why,  Johnnie!  What  is  the  matter?" 

He  replied:     "I  just  saw  something." 

Surprised,  the  Mother  questioned:  "What  did  you  see,  and  why  are  you 
crying  about  it?"  Still  sol^bing,  he  managed  to  say:  "I  just  saw  our  Lady, 
and  I  am  crying  because  I  was  so  surprised."  The  Mother  was  rather  in- 
credulous for  some  time  and  questioned  him  very  closely  as  to  how  he  knew 
the  appearance  he  believed  he  had  seen  was  Our  Lady;  just  where  he  saw  her, 
and  how  she  looked,  etc.  Every  time  he  repeated  the  same  description:  "She 
was  large  and  very  beautiful;  he  knew  it  was  Our  Lady,  for  she  had  the 
Christ-Child  in  her  arms;  she  appeared  suddenly  at  the  very  moment  the 
ostensorium  was  raised;  she  was  on  the  Gospel  side,  right  near  where  he  was 
kneeling."  ' 

The  Third  Apparition. 

The  third  alleged  apparition  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  which  we  record  is 
very  briefly  noted  in  an  incomplete  diary  kept  by  Father  Paul  under  the  date 
of  Saturday,  March  4,   1915.     The  memorandum  reads  as  follows: 

"On  this  night  (Saturday),  while  Edward  and  Gordon  Gregory  were 
saying  night  prayers  in  Chapel,  there  being  no  light  but  the  sanctuarj^  lamp, 
Gordon  saw  a  large  wliite  cross  from  ceiling  to  the  floor,  on  wliich  hung  Our 
Lord,  and  Our  Lady  knelt  to  the  left  (Epistle  side),  a  round  white  globe 
between  her  and  the  foot  of  the  cross.  This  Gordon  told  immediately  on 
coming  out  to  the  Father  and  returning,  he  still  saw  the  Crucified  One,  though 
fainter,  and   Our   Lady   had   disappeared." 

In  the  gross  literature  of  the  Dark  .\ges — literature  which  the  world 
has  long  supposed  to  be  forever  behind  us— there  is  nothing  which  de- 
mands a  more  a1)ject  surrender  of  Reason,  than  the  foregoing.  You  can 
understand  how,  in  the  Dark  Ages,  when  Rome  had  the  power  to  murder 
men  who  rejected  such  drivel,  men  saved  their  lives  by  pretending  to 
believe  it. 


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But  what  arc  we  to  think  of  Americans,  in  the  Twentieth  Century, 
who  voluntarily  accept  such  childish  absurdities? 

The  Virgin  Alary  is  a  wandering  Jewess,  who  travels  from  world  to 
world,  understanding  all  the  languages,  and  speaking  all  of  them  herself. 
The  French,  Italian  and  Spanish  boys  and  girls  to  whom  she  "appears," 
understand  her.  The  Mexican  peasant  at  Guadaloupe  had  no  diffiiculty 
in  understanding  her;  and  it  will  be  found  when  she  begins  to  prattle 
with  American  children,  that  she  speaks  English,  without  any  foreign 
brogue. 

Published  in  Indianapolis,  The  Eternal  Light,  is  another  papal  organ 
which  is  trying  to  lower  the  American  mind  to  the  level  of  popery's  most 
amazing  superstitions.  It  is  edited  by  an  Italian,  one  Marino  Priori, 
and  it  has  the  endorsement  of  the  Italian  Pope's  Italian  Ambassador, 
John  Bonzano.  In  its  issue  for  January,  1915,  this  recently  established 
magazine  expounds  the  nature  of  the  Pope : 

Who  is  the  Pope  in  the  Vatican  or  in  liis  official  capacity?  The  Pope  in 
his  official  capacity  in  the  Vatican,  is  Jesus  Christ,  who  uses  him  as  a  human  in- 
strument. Jesus  Christ  is  hidden  under  a  veil,  as  it  were.  The  Pope  speaks 
on  matters  of  Faith  and  Morals.  We  hear  the  human  voice  which  veils  the 
divine. 

Before  his  election  to  the  supreme  direction  of  the  faithful,  the  Pope  is  as 
other  men  created  by  God  with  the  intellectua:l  and  moral  faculties  that  become 
his  nature.  He  is  as  other  men  destined  to  a  supernatural  end,  and  has  received 
all  the  graces  necessary  to  reach  it.  But  once  the  Church  of  Christ  selects 
him  to  be  Christ's  vice-gerent,  he  is  raised  to  the  highest  degree  of  dignity  on 
earth  and  is  united  to  his  divine  Master  by  bonds  of  union  unique  in  the 
dealings  of  God  with  men. 

The  Pope  expounds  the  laws  of  God:  it  is  Jesus  that  does  so  through 
him.  The  Pope  declares  a  truth  to  be  of  the  teaching  of  the  Master;  it  is 
Jesus  that  declares  it.  The  Pope  appoints  a  bishop;  it  is  Christ  that  does  the 
appointing.  The  Pope  raises  a  person  of  heroic  virtue  to  the  altars;  it  is  Christ 
who  raises  him.  When  the  Pope  grants  an  indulgence,  or  strikes  the  guilty 
with  excommunication,  Christ  does  all  this  through  him. 

To  any  rational  human  being,  that  sort  of  gibberish  is  nauseating. 
It  was  never  heard  of  in  this  country,  until  a  very  few  years  ago.  Among 
the  strongest  Catholics,  the  Pope  was  nothing  more  than  Christ's  earthly 
representative,  until  Joseph  Taylor,  who  became  Pope  Pius  X.,  began 
to  proclaim  the  blasphemous  doctrine  that  the  Pope  "is  Christ,  veiled  in 
the  flesh." 

As  every  Catholic  knows,  the  Pope  kneels  to  a  confessor,  regularly, 
and  confesses  his  sins. 

What,  then,  becomes  of  "Christ  veiled  in  the  flesh?"  Is  it  the  voice 
of  Jesus,  speaking  through  the  Pope?  Does  Christ  commit  sin,  when 
the  Pope  sins?  Does  Christ  do  penance,  when  the  Pope  does?  If  not, 
why  not?  If  the  Pope  is  Christ,  then  Christ  kneels  to  a  human  being 
and  confesses  his  sins. 

Do  they  expect  their  own  American  dupes  to  always  remain  ignorant 
of  the  fact  that  one  of  the  Popes  was  killed  in  bed  with  a  woman ;  that 
one  of  them  was  not  discovered  to  be  a  woman  until  she  gave  birth  to 
a  child  in  a  "Holy  Procession ;"  that  one  of  them  owed  his  elevation  to 
his  paramour,  and  that  another  of  them  was  a  mere  boy,  whose  adulterous 


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mother  raised  him  to  the  papal  throne ;  that  one  of  them  poisoned  him- 
self in  trying  to  poison  a  cardinal ;  that  many  of  them  lived  openly  with 
their  concubines  and  bastards ;  that  one  of  them  raped  the  poet  Petrarch's 
sister  in  the  papal  palace  at  Avignon,  to  which  she  had  been  carried  a 
kidnapped  person ;  that  one  of  them  underwent  treatment  for  veneral 
disease,  after  he  was  elected  Pope,  and  that  he  finally  died  of  this  loath- 
some disease? 

When  Pope  Celestine  V.  resigned,  was  it  Christ  who  resigned? 

When  Pope  John  XXIII.  committed  murder,  adultery  and  incest,  as 
the  Council  of  Constance  convicted  him  of  having  done,  was  it  Christ 
who  reeked  with  these  awful  crimes  ? 

If  Pope  Pius  IX.  and  his  Minister  of  State,  Cardinal  Antonelli,  were 
not  two  of  the  worst  rakes  of  Italy,  they  have  been  shamefully  slandered, 
for  it  is  said  that  two  society  belles  in  Rome  were  recognized  as  the 
Pope's  daughters,  and  it  is  a  matter  of  record  that  Antonelli's  bastard 
daughter  sued  his  estate. 

When  the  Pope  laid  his  curse  on  our  Great  Charter,  and  excommuni- 
cated the  patriotic  barons,  was  it  Christ  who  thus  condemned  English 
liberties?  If  so,  why  does  Cardinal  Gibbons  boast  that  our  Great 
Charter  is  a  Catholic  work? 

The  Italian  maniac,  Marino  Priori,  says — '- 

The  Church  inspired  of  God  leaves  nothing  undone,  and  seems  even  then 
not  satisfied  with  all,  to  inculcate  reverence  for  this  man  so  honored.  Love, 
respect,  honor  are  on  her  hps  when  she  speaks  of  Him.  She  invites  us  to 
kneel  before  Him,  kiss  his  feet  and  shower  upon  him  marks  of  deep  veneration 
which  would  seem  exaggerated  if  she  did  not  show  us  Christ  hidden  in  the 
person  of  the  Pope, 

That  is  the  senseless  raving  of  a  lunatic,  and  it  is  the  most  recent 
importation  from  the  diseased  brains  of  Latin  mystics. 

There  isn't  a  word  of  the  Bible  that  supports  anything  of  the  kind. 
Christ  never  asked  any  man  to  kiss  his  feet.  Christ  never  appointed  one 
Apostle  to  a  higher  dignity  than  another.  Christ  forbade  that  very  thing, 
in  the  strongest  possible  hmguage.  And  the  Roman  Church  made  no 
claim  to  a  universal  bishopric,  until  Christ  had  left  the  earth  hundreds 
of  years. 

Even  Gregory  the  Great  did  not  claim  to  be  universal  bishop,  and  he 
denied  that  any  such  supreme  office  in  the  church  existed. 

When  Boniface  afterwards  claimed  and  secured  the  title  of  pope,  he 
did  not  get  the  "honor"  from  Christ,  but  from  the  blood-stained  hands 
of  the  Roman  Emperor,  Phocas,  of  whom  the  historian  says — 

"A  baser  wretch  never  stained  a  throne,  or  invited  the  vengeance  of 
heaven." 

It  was  only  by  an  imperial  decree,  signed  in  Constantinople,  in  the 
year  609,  that  Phocas  revoked  the  law  which  had  made  the  Bishop  of 
Constantinople  the  chief  of  all  the  churches,  and  made  the  Roman  Church 
their  mistress. 

The  historian,  Cathcart,  says — 

"Phocas,  the  basest  of  usurpers  and  murderers,  anointed  Boniface 
as  sovereign  of  Christ's  entire  kingdom." 


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That  is  strictly  true.  You  may  read  in  any  History  of  Rome  about 
the  usurpation  of  the  throne  by  Phocas,  and  about  the  atrocities  he 
committed  afterwards.  You  can  also  read  in  any  honest  and  full  History 
of  the  Popes,  how  Bishop  Boniface  of  Rome  outmaneuvered  the  Christian 
patriarch  of  Constantinople,  and  snatched  from  his  head  the  crown  of 
Universal  Bishop. 

Not  from  the  Bible,  not  from  Christ,  but  from  a  political  intrigue, 
with  a  wicked  emperor,  the  popes  of  Rome  derived  their  title  and  their 
place  in  the  Christian  system. 

Evidently,  the  literature  of  Roman  Catholicism  has  taken  the  back 
track,  and  is  travelling  toward  the  happy  time  when  everybody  was  forced 
to  express  belief  in  "white  magic,"  sorcery,  witchcraft,  exorcisms,  unicorns, 
vampires,  dragons,  charms,  amulets,  relics,  incantations,  and  personal 
visits  from  angels  and  devils. 

The  statesman  says,  "Show  me  the  laws  of  a  country,  and  I  will  tell 
you  the  condition  of  the  people."  The  philosopher  says,  "Show  me  the 
literature  of  a  people,  and  I  will  gauge  their  mental  condition.' 

If  a  foreign  church  can  come  into  this  country,  and  debauuch  the 
minds  of  free  Americans,  their  mental  condition  will  disarm  them  when 
the  Italian  Pope  advances  more  aggressively  against  our  democratic  in- 
stitutions. Just  let  the  Protestants  be  quiescent,  while  the  cowl  of  the 
monk  is  being  drawn  over  the  brains  of  millions  of  American  Catholics, 
and  it  will  not  be  long  before  the  priests  will  demand  control  of  education, 
of  marriage  and  divorce,  of  the  custody  of  children,  and  a  complete 
censorship  over  the  agencies  which  create  public  opinion. 

When  the  Catholic  mind  shall  have  been  prepared  to  accept  any 
monstrosity  of  belief,  or  of  practice,  and  the  liberty  is  denied  non- 
Catholics  to  speak  against  it,  or  to  write  against  it,  then,  indeed,  we  will 
face  one  of  two  calamities — complete  submission  to  a  foreign  potentate, 
or  another  Revolutionary  War  for  Independence. 

It  is  the  madness  of  utter  folly,  when  the  Protestant  press  and  the 
Protestant  pulpits  take  no  account  of  the  public  boast  and  threat  of  Arch- 
bishop James  E.  Quigley,  of  Chicago,  as  expressed  by  him  in  addressing 
one  of  the  Italian  Pope's  armed  secret  societies — 

"We  have  well-ordered  and  efficient  organizations,  all  at  the  beck  and  nod 
of  the  Hierarchy,  and  ready  to  do  what  the  church  authorities  tell  them  to  do. 
With  these  bodies  of  loyal  Catholics  ready  to  step  in  the  breach  at  any  time, 
and  present  an  unbroken  front  to  the  enemy,  we  may  feel  secure." 

Who  are  "the  enemy?"  Against  whom,  have  these  secret  military 
organizations  armed  and  drilled?  What  is  the  legal  right  that  has  been 
denied  to  any  Catholic?  What  is  it  they  are  asked  to  do,  except  to  obey 
the  laws  made  in  this  country? 

The  law  of  the  Italian  Pope  denies  liberty  of  conscience,  of  worship, 
of  speech,  and  of  press :  do  these  armed  bands  of  American  papists  pro- 
pose to  enforce  the  Pope's  law  in  America  ? 

The  law  of  the  Italian  Pope  denies  divorce  to  all  who  cannot  pay  huge 
sums  of  money  for  it;  and  the  papal  law  of  marriage  claims  the  right 
to  nullify  ours.  Do  the  armed  bands  of  the  American  papists  propose 
to  revolutionize  our  marriage  laws? 


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The  law  of  the  Italian  Pope  makes  him  a  deadly  enemy  to  the  separa- 
tion of  Church  and  State,  free  secular  education,  and  popular  sovereignty ! 

Do  the  armed  bands  of  American  papists  propose  to  fight  us,  "the 
enemy,"  in  the  eflfort  to  plant  the  Pope's  law  above  our  own? 

Between  the  Canon  law  of  popery,  and  the  principles  embodied  in  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  there  is  inevitable  war.  Between  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  Pope's  Church,  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States, 
there  is  profound,  uncompromising  and  deadly  hostility. 

Will  the  "Hierarchy"  give  its  "beck"  and  its  "nod"  to  the  "well- 
ordered  and  efficient  organizations,"  when  the  time  comes  for  them  to 
openly  make  war  upon  the  Declaration  and  the  Constitution? 

Are  we  to  again  haVe  a  Pope's  curse  launched  against  the  Great 
Charter  of  our  liberties ;  and  will  these  secret  military  organizations,  that 
are  "prostrate  at  the  feet"  of  the  foreign  potentate,  endeavor  to  make  good 
with  arms,  their  crusade  against  freedom  of  speech,  against  freedom  of 
press,  and  against  the  supremacy  of  tJ}e  State  over  the  Church? 

I  am  not  alluding  to  the  popish  principles  of  the  Dark  Ages — those 
fearful  centuries  when  Rome  was  murderously  supreme.  My  allusion 
is  to  the  present  attitude  of  this  foreign  church,  which  seeks  to  rule  our 
country,  and  change  its  form  of  government. 

In  his  first  declaration  of  principles,  the  reigning  pope  (Rev.  Delia 
Chiesa)  carried  himself  back  to  the  times  of  the  popes  who  made  the 
Dark  Ages.  On  November  1,  1914,  Mr.  Chiesa — who  took  the  papal  name 
of  Benedict  XVI. — made  it  perfectly  plain  that  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  is  just  as  much  opposed  to  the  people's  right  to  rule  themselves, 
as  and  of  his  despotic  predecessors  were.  He  utterly  scouts  the  demo- 
cratic doctrine  that,  all  government  rests  upon  the  consent  of  the  governed. 
He  again  proclaims  the  hateful,  mediaeval  conception  of  the  Divine  Right 
of  Kings. 

According  to  this  latest  Pope,  the  duty  of  the  people  is  to  serve,  obey, 
and  support  the  Divine  families  who  were  born  to  rule  over  all  other 
families.  According  to  this  latest  Pope,  it  is  the  people's  part  to  be 
thankful  to  God  for  being  allowed  the  glorious  privilege  of  being  ridden 
by  a  divinely  favored  class,  who  were  born  booted  and  spurred  for  that 
purpose. 

According  to  this  Italian  priest,  Delia  Chiesa,  the  great  Liberators  of 
the  human  race  were  a  lot  of  seditious  traitors,  who  deserved  death.  Ac- 
cording to  this  newest  Pope,  Garibaldi  was  a  wicked  insurgent,  Robert 
Emmett  a  traitor,  Simon  Bolivar  a  mischief-maker,  and  George  Washing- 
ton and  Charles  Carroll,  of  CarroUton,  were  rebels  against  a  heavenly 
authority,  for  which  a  text  is  found — as  Chiesa  tells  us — in  Romans, 
XIII,  1. 

I  think,  if  some  American  Catholics  who  are  not  bigots,  would  care- 
fully study  th  first  Encyclical  of  Benedict  XVI.,  they  would  open  their 
eyes. 

In  this  Encyclical,  the  new  Pope  declares  for  union  of  Church  and 
State,  cruelly  ignoring  the  opposite  recent  public  statements  of  Prince 
Truthful  James  Gibbons,  of   Baltimore. 


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He  also  demands  a  restoration  of  his  Temporal  Power,  which  the 
Italian  Catholics  pulled  down  in  1870. 

He  bitterly  condemns  all  modern  thought,  and  wants  us  to  mentally 
return  to  the  good  old  days,  when  red-tailed  Dragons  devoured  wicked 
mortals  who  ate  meat  on  Friday. 

He  expressly  condemns  Freedom  of  Thought,  and  sweetly  argues,  in 
effect  that  your  brain  and  mine  were  made  to  act  as  hewers  of  wood  and 
drawers  of  water  for  the  brain  of  the  Pope  and  the  brain  of  the  King. 
The  divinely  chosen  Pope  and  the  divinely  chosen  Kmg  may  use  their 
brains,  if  they  happen  to  have  any— which  it  not  often  the  case— but 
you  and  I  must  regard  our  grey  matter  as  a  piece  of  bare  ground  to  be 
sown  cultivated,  and  harvested,  bv  those  higher  mortals  whom  God  made 
out  of  a  special  grade  of  clay,  and  who  have  the  right  to  thmk  for  us, 
speak  for  us,  and  live  on  us,  as  per  a  passage  in  one  of  Paul's  epistles ! 

It  always  strikes  me  as  the  sublime  of  impudence,  when  so  anomalous 
a  person  as  the  Pope,  presiding  over  a  Catholic  world  which  worships 
Mary,  and  which  never  reads  the  Bible  in  the  search  for  papal  dogma, 
should  quote  from  Paul,  to  sustain  the  monstrous  pretensions  of  absolu- 
tism and  Divine  Right. 

In  short,  the  papal  law,  as  re-stated  in  1914,  is  the  same  that  it  was 
in  the  Dark  Ages.  According  to  that  law,  no  patriot  ever  had  the  right^ 
to  resist  the  tyrant  King,  and  no  slave  ever  had  the  right  to  fight  for  his 
freedom.  According  to  that  papal  law,  the  Torch-bearers  of  the  modern 
civilization  and  intellectual  progress  were  all  rebels  against  God  and  the 
Pope. 

Possibly,  the  Archbishops  and  the  Cardinals  may  impose  that  hoary, 
mediaeval  code  upon  America,  but  I  don't  think  they  will. 


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